What Did Marx Say?; CAPITALISM AND SOCIALISM ON TRIAL By Fritz Sternberg. Translated from the German by Edward Fitzgerald. 576 pp. New York: The John Day Company. $6.50.

IN the Marxist vocabulary used by Fritz Sternberg, capitalism and socialism were on trial during the recent British election. The narrow Conservative victory over the socialist Labor party illustrates, at any rate, that there are two world trends, and that in Britain they command almost equal strength.View Full Article in Timesmachine »

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A version of this archives appears in print on February 17, 1952, on Page 231 of the New York edition with the headline: What Did Marx Say?; CAPITALISM AND SOCIALISM ON TRIAL By Fritz Sternberg. Translated from the German by Edward Fitzgerald. 576 pp. New York: The John Day Company. $6.50. Order Reprints|Today's Paper|Subscribe